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Colloquium Lectures (AMS)
The Colloquium Lecture of the American Mathematical Society is a special annual session of lectures. History The origins of the Colloquium Lectures date back to the 1893 International Congress of Mathematics, held in connection with the Chicago World's Fair (1893), Chicago World's Fair, where the German mathematician Felix Klein gave the opening address. After the Congress, Klein was invited by one of its organiser, his former student Henry Seely White, to deliver a two-week-long series of lectures at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Evanston. In February 1896, White proposed in a letter to Thomas Fiske to repeat the experience of the Evanston lectures, by organising a series of longer talks "for increasing the utility of the American Mathematical Society". The two of them, together with E. H. Moore, William Fogg Osgood, William Osgood, Frank Nelson Cole, Frank Cole, Alexander Ziwet, and Frank Morley, wrote later an open letter to the AMS, asking the society to sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs. The society is one of the four parts of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics and a member of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. History The AMS was founded in 1888 as the New York Mathematical Society, the brainchild of Thomas Fiske, who was impressed by the London Mathematical Society on a visit to England. John Howard Van Amringe became the first president while Fiske became secretary. The society soon decided to publish a journal, but ran into some resistance over concerns about competing with the '' American Journal of Mathematics''. The result was the ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'', with Fiske as editor-in-chief. The de facto journal, as intended, was influentia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |